Question

True or False: Every lightning strike produces thunder.

True or False: Lightning can sometimes occur on hot and humid summer evenings when there are no thunderstorms.

In a typical thunderstorm, positive charge builds at the top of the cloud. Why?

How many times per second do lightning strikes happen on earth?

Answer 1

False,

True,

A build up of positive charge builds up on the ground under the cloud, attracted to the negative charge in the cloud. The earth's positive charge concentrates to anything that sticks up - trees, lightning conductors,

100